Dress Fitting Saturday
This morning, I went to Oak at Snow White Wedding Shop (she's the Queen of Alterations). I had to drop off two gowns for alterations -- one for Joanna's wedding on June 1st, the other for Sheree's wedding on June 21st.
Yes, I am in two weddings in one month. But...after June, I'll be done with weddings until Betty's in September 2009. I love my friends, but I have to admit that this is something I am totally looking forward to -- not being in a wedding for the rest of the year!
Joanna's gown cost me an arm and a leg when I'd purchased it. Oak told me this is because silk taffeta (the dress material) is very expensive. I said, "I KNOW, I paid for it and I HATE silk taffeta." How can something so noisy and unflattering be so expensive?!
Oak says the reason the dress itself was so overpriced is because of the stupid detailing -- inside the dress, I have this...chest support thing that flattens my chest and prevents me from breathing like a normal human being, but decidedly holds the gown up. There are also special straps and loops on the gown so that when I hang it up, it doesn't damage the dress -- if you count those things as details you'd want to pay $200 for. Heh.
I really hated Joanna's bridesmaid gown until Oak pinned it down on the sides (it was puffing out ridiculously) and pinned up the hem at least two inches. Now it's...acceptable, but I still can't breathe. Heh. The only problem I have with the dress is that the shoes that Joanna asked us to wear are shiny silver and do not match the dress all that well. It looks odd. Not bad, but not great, either -- the dress is a dark chocolate brown and the shoes are bright shiny silver. I don't know how that color combination came up, but...it's not my wedding and I'm not the one determining the color selection.
The gown for Sheree's wedding isn't that much better-looking because I feel huge and fat, but at least it's comfortable. And it didn't cost me an arm and a leg...and the color of the dress actually coordinates with the shoe very well. Actually, it looked great: I felt sophisticated, not like I was a sausage being stuffed into its casing -- and definitely classy.
In any case, I have to get some little five pound weights and start working with my resistance bands so I can get rid of the...overflow that squishes out of both gowns. In general, I just have to work out...and now that I'm finally off school for the next few weeks, I have the time to be really strict with myself...so here we go. Hopefully I'll be able to tone up over the next couple weeks for Joanna's wedding...and then be able to slim down for Sheree's.
Yes, I am in two weddings in one month. But...after June, I'll be done with weddings until Betty's in September 2009. I love my friends, but I have to admit that this is something I am totally looking forward to -- not being in a wedding for the rest of the year!
Joanna's gown cost me an arm and a leg when I'd purchased it. Oak told me this is because silk taffeta (the dress material) is very expensive. I said, "I KNOW, I paid for it and I HATE silk taffeta." How can something so noisy and unflattering be so expensive?!
Oak says the reason the dress itself was so overpriced is because of the stupid detailing -- inside the dress, I have this...chest support thing that flattens my chest and prevents me from breathing like a normal human being, but decidedly holds the gown up. There are also special straps and loops on the gown so that when I hang it up, it doesn't damage the dress -- if you count those things as details you'd want to pay $200 for. Heh.
I really hated Joanna's bridesmaid gown until Oak pinned it down on the sides (it was puffing out ridiculously) and pinned up the hem at least two inches. Now it's...acceptable, but I still can't breathe. Heh. The only problem I have with the dress is that the shoes that Joanna asked us to wear are shiny silver and do not match the dress all that well. It looks odd. Not bad, but not great, either -- the dress is a dark chocolate brown and the shoes are bright shiny silver. I don't know how that color combination came up, but...it's not my wedding and I'm not the one determining the color selection.
The gown for Sheree's wedding isn't that much better-looking because I feel huge and fat, but at least it's comfortable. And it didn't cost me an arm and a leg...and the color of the dress actually coordinates with the shoe very well. Actually, it looked great: I felt sophisticated, not like I was a sausage being stuffed into its casing -- and definitely classy.
In any case, I have to get some little five pound weights and start working with my resistance bands so I can get rid of the...overflow that squishes out of both gowns. In general, I just have to work out...and now that I'm finally off school for the next few weeks, I have the time to be really strict with myself...so here we go. Hopefully I'll be able to tone up over the next couple weeks for Joanna's wedding...and then be able to slim down for Sheree's.